The Island

Rating: 8/10 (1 November 2006)

This movie starts quite well. Interesting idea's about the future are shown and they are realistic.The movie starts off as a thriller, but as soon as the 2 main characters (Ewan McGregor and Scarlett Johansson) get out of the cloning facility the action starts. And that is what ruins the whole movie, the action is filmed nice with a lot of explosions, special effects and chases. But it's so unreal. They fall down from an apartment and they still lives. Than they save the others and everybody is free.
The movie contains some ideas that also are in the novel Brave New World, such as learning while sleeping, although in this movie the clones get manipulated while sleeping but the essence is the same.
I think it's a good movie but the end of the movie is predictable, because it's a good ending movie and everybody is free. But what happens when they come in the world and see the 'real' people?